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concept-2603	none	A Joke Without a Clear Punchline: Joker as a Supervillain to Linearity	2021	17	.pdf	application/pdf	5708	254	59	Violence is a staple of the superhero film genre, but the scenes in Joker could be said to be more intense than those of past films due to the hyperrealism attached to the otherwise fantastical genre, for “Genres lead distinctly double lives, with one foot in the past and the other in the present; they contain the entire abridged 5 history of an aesthetic form while also staking a claim to the form’s contemporary relevance” (Martin 6). Films may allude to time but they are not entirely specific to time, or, “Film remains isolated amid the network of practices that frame and fashion it, independently perceived as the effect of so many configurations of causes” (Beck 9).	cache/concept-2603.pdf	txt/concept-2603.txt